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> To ban citations would require either plagarizing That sounds fine to me. The only people harmed would be the for profit journals.

• rocqua 8y ago
  No, very much no. Plagiarism is not about copyright it is about credit. Plagiarism hurts the scientist being plagiarized because their work is being passed of as someone else's work. In the academic world, people building on your work is essentially how you get evaluated. If people build of your work without saying so, they are doing two bad things. - They get recognition for things they did not come up with - The person who did come up with the thing does not get that recognition Consider the argument between Newton and Leibniz about who invented calculus first. That wasn't about copyright, it was purely about credit and plagiarism.
  • Nullabillity 8y ago
    Yes, and that's the point! If commercial journals are categorically no longer cited then people whose performance reviews rely on citations will switch to other outlets.
  • stale2002 8y ago
    > Plagiarism hurts the scientist being plagiarized because their work is being passed of as someone else's work. Indeed they would be hurt. If your research is only in the paid for journals, then you would get screwed. I just don't think this is a bad thing. The only people harmed would be the journal and the scientist who chose to lock up his research behind a paywall. It sounds like a win to me to screw over people who lock up their research.